The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-07-22
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
THE GAYETlES OF PARIS GET THE
BETTER OF HIM.
Mandy, His Wife, Because of His Lapse,
Gets Him Away from the French Cap
ital-They Visit Monaco, Where is tho
"chapple" Of saint Isoulette."

NeCs HIM away from tine EF0nCn cap
ital-They Visit Monaco, Where is tho
'Chapple" Of saint Roulette"
Especial Correspondence
MONACO, Ju %.
DEAR EDITOR: II don't disremember il
seems to me that kind of hinted in my last let
ter to your valuble journal, which was wrote
: in gay, giddy, gallorious Paris, that before me
and Mandy got out of that town, there was
going to be q differnce of oppinion about the
merits Of the place, which was going to
amount to about state of beliggerency
Well, MIR. Editor, my foresight in this case
was as good as my hindsight, and there was
a state Of beiggerency nearly equal to war
fare. have saw Mandy riled on moren one
OCCASION, but never quite SO much as in Paris.
1t was over sech little thing, too. You see
it was this way. After we had got our sup
per, stable dote," they called it in French,
we walked out for short stroll to see the
city laying in the neighborhood of our tavern.
We hadn't gone far till we come to big
building, with colyums all around it, and we
stopped to look at it. noticed a chap stand
ing under the gas lamp that looked like be
needed sixpence, and / went up to him,
leaving Mandy about ten feet off.
"Can you talk English!" says to him, with
bow
"We, mussier," he says to me; ~ speakee ze
languidge quite mooch," and he smiled all
over as handed him the money
"Mebbe you do" says, ''but it don't sound
that way. Can you tell me what building
that is?'
"Zat is re Madelain, mussier"
Mandy turned around, quickern litenin'
"Sh-sh," says !, "don't talk so loud. That's
my wife, and her name amt Madelain.n
He looked scared as Mandy came closer.
"Zat is re Madelain," he said again; "ze
great and ze beautifool Agleeze- Madelain
Agleeze"
"Who's Madelain Agleeze!" says Mandy,
putting in, mighty sperrited.
ave, madame" he says, bowling and back
ing off to safe distance
1--WE nothin'," she says, gettin' hot; 1--WE air
Mr.. and Mrs. Waxem from Wayback in the
United States of Ameriky. We don't know
anybody named Madelain Agleeze in Paris
What's she got to do with us?"
"Nong, nong, madame, says the pore cuss,
Citing me between him and Mandy. "Nong
Madelain Agleeze. He is not her name.
Agleeze is ze-ze-what you call him in
Onglaises Ze Madelain, ze-ze-oh-we,
madame; ze church, ze great and ze beauti-
fool church in Paree." 9-.z-.
"Oh it's meetin' house, is it?r says Mandy,
cooling down little; swell, mebbe it is and
mebbe it amt. / amt takin' no resks in
Paris anyhow, and Bash, reckin we'd better
be gittin back towards the tavern"
seen there was no use in trying to git
Mandy's mind changed, SO didn't try. She
was down on Paris anyway, and eff she was
going to begin by suspicioning church 1
thought fde give her all the rope she wanted
and let her choke herself.
talked soothin' to her on the way home
s.bout the high and lofty patriotism Of the
Frenchrnen of 1888, so near our own 1776,
and of the great and glorious republic which
tine land was now enjoying of, and when VIC
sot to our room she was in purity fair
Eumor.
We prepared to retire, and just before
blowing ont the candle I thought of some
thing.
"Geewhillikins, Mandy" / says to her,
"thers some mail down stairs for us, and l
plum forgot it"
She was anxious to git it and thought she
was going to tell me to ring for it, but we
don't have servant bells in Wayback, and
Mandy let me put on my clothes and go down
to the office.
And went, Mr.. Editor, but didn't come
Lack, and there's where mans duplicity some
times gifts him into heap of trouble with
trustin' woman. In the office, met a couple
of stray Americans, and ! stopped to talk a
rrinute, only minute, but it stretched out.
i we had drink, and then they suggested
a wall. Io,,or tho Cbo INNS EI;,, ,l T fo.,~,A
Handy clean, smack smooth, and went out
with the boys. I told them RELY didn't
Lave the time, and must be hurryin' back.
but it was glorious in the brilliant lights and
crowds of people and music and beauty, and
we set down and had several short and long
drinks, and the upshot of it was that didn't
git home tell after midnight. -s-..
Thought, perhaps, Mandy was tired enough
to be asleep when I got in, but she wasn't.
She was down in the Office. She had been
down about every fifteen minutes since left
and was there payin' her fourteenth visit when
l arrived feelin' tollible frisky.
Mr.. Editor, shall draw the veil here. In
the words of Shakespeare's Marquis of Tewks-
bury, Il passed fearful night" done
what could in self defense. for hadn't conf
mitted no fault except to fool her little on
slipping out of her grip, but the result of that
break of mine was that we was at the
depot the next morning waiting for the first
train out of town, and Mandy was watchin'
NE like hawk. She got me into the cars
early and she didn't slack up on her eternal
vigilance tell we was fifty miles from Paris.
Then the lovely country, the sweet mornin'
air, the birds singing and the sunshine,
seemed to git into her heart, and she told me
e V,r< To 10 81, ~
forgive me. I promist, Of course, and we
went on to Lyons to spend th night.
**#
Lyons is mighty near as bad in women as
Paris is in men, and when Mandy began to
talk about Lyons silks and Lyons velvets, and
all that sort Of thing, I reckon must have
felt like she did about me in Paris, for Mandy
would as soon spend $500 for a silk and velvet
dress as I'd spend twenty-five cents for a
couple of drinks, only I've had good many
more drinks than Mandy has had silk dresses.
We staid there the next day, Mandy getting
worse all the time, and finally had to resort
to strategy, and camly informed her that
had received a telegram from the American
minister at Monaco requesting me TO meet
him there on Saturday to discuss treaty
of an important carackter.
"Where's Monacow she asked, when told
her about it.
ats down on the Medditerranyan sea coast
says, aright on this same railroad, and we
can go right there from here, stopping in
Marseilles over night to rest"
"But want Lyons silk velvet dress here
for myself, and I want to get you o nice
white Marseilles vest when we get there, " she
says, protestingly.
aBut, my dear" says, @this is important
government business, and must be attended
to- You want the dress, know, and l want
the vest, but let us make a sacrifice for our
country will give up the vest, you give
up the silk dress, and let us obey the call that
no patriot fears -
"Drat the patriots, nshe says, very rebelious,
to me, with red spot just showin' on her
nose. sWhat am Tgoin' TO do IN Monaco, c.
whatever you call it, while you air tendin' to
the affairs of states
aOh, says, there's heap for you to do
there. Not moren ten minutes walk from
Monaco is Monte Carlo, where Saint Rou-
lette is showed to visitors in the famous
Casino Chapple. Thousands of PILGRIMS
come there every year, and there amt moro
interesting place in Urop. The last man-he
was New York American that seen from
there told me that missionary society wns
neefied there, and who knows, my dear, but
what you may be the one TO start il, and as
Saint Mandy of Monte Carlo be to religion
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